Re: Tony Moss - hacked
Hi Tony, James Fallows wrote an excellent article on his experience when his wife's gmail was hacked. Here is a link. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/308673/ Even with his top level connections with Google and the tech community, the recovery was difficult. Google changed some of their practices due to this exposure but the recovery process is still difficult. Good Luck, Roger Bailey From: Tony Moss Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:43 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Tony Moss - hacked Hi all, A thousand apologies to anyone who has had trouble with this nasty event. My email password is now reset and more secure. At least Gmail support could tell me how to restore my vanished email address list successfully Phew! Whoever did this (I think) also wiped all my 'Sent Mail' and 'in Box' ith some important files so I'm hoping that Gmail have a means of restoring them too, although any suggestions are very welcome. Thanks to David Brown for making this announcement. Best, Tony M. -Original Message- From: rmallett postmas...@rmallett.plus.com To: David da...@davidbrownsundials.com CC: sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:18 Subject: Re: Tony Moss - hacked On 27/09/2013 11:50, David wrote: Dear All, Please note that Tony Moss has had his computer hacked and cannot communicate for the time being. He has asked me to let the sundial list know of his predicament. David Brown Somerton, Somerset, UK --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial That's what you get for using something like Gmail :-) -- -- Richard Mallett Eaton Bray, Dunstable South Beds. UK --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4142 / Virus Database: 3604/6702 - Release Date: 09/26/13 --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Tony Moss - hacked
On 28/09/2013 18:03, Roger Bailey wrote: Hi Tony, James Fallows wrote an excellent article on his experience when his wife's gmail was hacked. Here is a link. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/308673/Even with his top level connections with Google and the tech community, the recovery was difficult. Google changed some of their practices due to this exposure but the recovery process is still difficult. Good Luck, Roger Bailey Looks like the man's wife was not using an email client on her PC, but was (and, for many years, had been) reading (and replying to) emails directly on the Google servers, which is an obvious no-no. Much better to use an email client like Mozilla Thunderbird, and use a backup program like Mozbackup. Of course, as the husband explains, if your ISP (and / or the provider of your email account) is a multi-million customer company, then (a) the risk is greater, and (b) the degree of support is less when something does go wrong. If this is what it was like in 2011, you can bet that it will be worse (rather than better) in 2013-14. I don't know who James Fallows is (or was) as I only read the first page (which seemed to give the gist of what happened) but obviously his wife enjoyed no special privileges from a largely automated system, as one would expect. -- -- Richard Mallett Eaton Bray, Dunstable South Beds. UK --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Tony Moss - hacked
The real take-away lesson in that story is DON'T TRUST THE CLOUD Sent from my iPad On Sep 28, 2013, at 11:17 AM, rmallett postmas...@rmallett.plus.com wrote: On 28/09/2013 18:03, Roger Bailey wrote: Hi Tony, James Fallows wrote an excellent article on his experience when his wife's gmail was hacked. Here is a link. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/308673/ Even with his top level connections with Google and the tech community, the recovery was difficult. Google changed some of their practices due to this exposure but the recovery process is still difficult. Good Luck, Roger Bailey Looks like the man's wife was not using an email client on her PC, but was (and, for many years, had been) reading (and replying to) emails directly on the Google servers, which is an obvious no-no. Much better to use an email client like Mozilla Thunderbird, and use a backup program like Mozbackup. Of course, as the husband explains, if your ISP (and / or the provider of your email account) is a multi-million customer company, then (a) the risk is greater, and (b) the degree of support is less when something does go wrong. If this is what it was like in 2011, you can bet that it will be worse (rather than better) in 2013-14. I don't know who James Fallows is (or was) as I only read the first page (which seemed to give the gist of what happened) but obviously his wife enjoyed no special privileges from a largely automated system, as one would expect. -- -- Richard Mallett Eaton Bray, Dunstable South Beds. UK --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
